Then, on the 16^th, 8 days later, they showed us another image of the future, stating that the graphics displayed in the picture would be available within the next few months.

However, they did not show the previous looks of the area in question, AKA the Godwars Dungeon entrance.  Here’s a picture I found on the internet, sorry for low quality, it was the only one I could find.  That is not me in the picture.

I don’t see why they didn’t show a picture of what it looks like now, since it looks much better in the “after” picture.

Today, in a development diary, Jagex showed us a few more pictures of the new RuneScape.  Here are my opinions on each of them.

This terrorbird is a clear improvement on the old graphics.  It’s much bigger, has less visible stray polygon edges, its tail looks like it’s made of feathers and not blue knives, the underbelly looks soft, the feathers look soft, and the beak doesn’t look like it’s a square with pieces cut off.  The only bad thing about it is that it has no pupil in its eye.

The “texture” picture is an image of Falador, near the east bank.  The texture is a bit overdone, but it actually looks like a stone road.  However, the grass does not look right.  Some of the grass looks like green mud and some looks like it’s giant.  The character shown in the picture is a bit too bright and the boots are very squared off.

The “blending” picture looks much better to me than the “texture” one because it is smoother, has less varying textures, and the plants look real.  I like how the plants aren’t perfectly spaced or all the same angle.

This is a picture of the new shadows.  I like how there is fog at the edge of visibility, because it looked really bad when things popped in or out of existence.  The shadows look almost real!

I like how the flags aren’t exactly synchronized, and how the shadows move along with the flags.  I had to double the speed of the animation, because it looked bad the way that Jagex rendered it.